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| Canada's Trudeau topples PM Harper in shock election win | |  By Randall Palmer and Rod Nickel MONTREAL/CALGARY (Reuters) - Canada's Liberal leader Justin Trudeau rode a late surge to a stunning majority election victory on Monday, toppling Prime Minister Stephen Harper's Conservatives with a promise of change and returning a touch of glamor, youth and charisma to Ottawa. Harper conceded defeat and the Conservative party announced his resignation, ending a nine-year run in power and the 56-year-old's brand of fiscal and cultural conservatism that voters appeared to sour on.
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| N. Ireland minister says "some hope" for talks on political crisis | |  Britain's Northern Ireland minister Theresa Villiers said on Tuesday she held out "some hope" of a successful resolution to talks aimed at averting a collapse of the province's power-sharing government, but that such an outcome was not guaranteed. "There are some significant gaps between the parties still... But it is, I believe, the case that all of the five parties taking part in the talks want to make devolution work," she told parliament.
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| Zimbabwe court says local Cecil hunter to face trial next month | |  By Mike Saburi HWANGE, Zimbabwe (Reuters) - A Zimbabwean court on Tuesday refused a hunter's request to drop charges against him for failing to stop the killing of Cecil the lion by an American, who just days ago was cleared by the government. Zimbabwean hunter Theo Bronkhorst has denied any wrongdoing and says his family and business have been destroyed in the wake of the lion's death, which triggered an international outcry. The government last week said it would not charge Walter Palmer, the American dentist who used a bow and arrow to kill Cecil, a rare, black-manned lion outside Hwange National Park.
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| Italy's Renzi mimics Berlusconi in bid to inherit his voters | |  By Gavin Jones ROME (Reuters) - A recent front-page cartoon in Italy's mainstream newspaper Corriere della Sera depicted elderly former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi affectionately holding the hand of his little ice-cream licking "son" Matteo Renzi, the current premier. The sketch summed up a growing perception in Italy that 40-year-old Renzi, leader of the centre-left Democratic Party (PD), has moved so far to the right that he has become the political heir to 79-year-old conservative leader. The cartoon followed an announcement by Renzi that he was relaxing a limit on the use of cash, which had been introduced by a previous government to curb rampant tax evasion.
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| Azerbaijan arrests seven security ministry officials before election | | | Police in Azerbaijan arrested seven former national security officials on Tuesday on suspicion of exceeding their authority and illegal interference in businesses, days after Azeri President Ilham Aliyev fired his national security minister. Eldar Mahmudov was fired on Saturday in a surprise move two weeks ahead of a parliamentary election in the oil-rich nation. The Prosecutor General's office said on Tuesday it had opened a criminal case and created an investigative group "in connection with acts of abuse of official powers and other offences committed by different officials at the national security ministry." "Investigative operations have raised suspicions about a group of ministry officials abusing service powers, illegally intervening in the activities of entrepreneurs in violation of the law on entrepreneurship, and violating the judicially and legally protected interests of different individuals," the Prosecutor General's office said in a statement. |
| FIFA confirms congress, presidential election for February | |  By Brian Homewood Zurich (Reuters) - Soccer's governing body FIFA said on Tuesday its presidential election would go ahead as planned on Feb. 26 and promised it would do more to open up internal investigations into complaints and scandals. The announcement was a blow for UEFA president Michel Platini - a delay in the election mooted by some officials would have given him more time to appeal against a ban from the game and then stand to replace departing leader Sepp Blatter. Both Blatter and Platini were suspended by FIFA's Ethics Committee this month, engulfed by a deepening corruption scandal as their sport faces criminal investigations in Switzerland and the United States.
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| Pistorius freed on parole after 1 year behind bars for killing girlfriend | |  By TJ Strydom PRETORIA (Reuters) - Oscar Pistorius, South Africa's double-amputee "Blade Runner", was released on parole late on Monday, just short of a year into his five-year sentence for killing his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp on Valentine's Day 2013. The disgraced Paralympic gold medallist must serve the rest of his sentence under house arrest but still faces an appeal on Nov. 3 by prosecutors who argue that he should have been convicted of murder, not culpable homicide. Pistorius, 28, who was found guilty of the lesser charge when he fired four shots through a locked bathroom door and hit Steenkamp, will be confined to his uncle Arnold's home in a wealthy suburb of the capital, Pretoria.
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| Malaysian opposition move against PM delayed to next parliament session - speaker | |  A no-confidence motion planned by Malaysia's opposition alliance against embattled Prime Minister Najib Razak will not be heard by the current session of parliament, the speaker of the house said on Tuesday. The leader of the newly formed opposition alliance Pakatan Harapan, Wan Azizah Wan Ismail, the wife of jailed opposition politician Anwar Ibrahim, on Monday announced plans to submit a no-confidence motion this week. Opposition leaders are seeking Najib's removal following public anger over alleged graft and financial mismanagement at state fund 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB), which has debts of more than $11 billion.
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| Slovenian army to help control migrants at border, thousands held up in Balkans | |  By Marja Novak and Aleksandar Vasovic LJUBLJANA/BERKASOVO, Serbia (Reuters) - Slovenia said on Tuesday it would deploy the army to guard its border and appealed for help from the European Union as migrants streamed through the tiny country and many thousands more spent another cold night outside in the Balkans. Attempts by Slovenia to ration the flow of migrants since Hungary sealed its border with Croatia at midnight on Friday have triggered a knock-on effect through the Balkans, with thousands held up at border crossings. At least 12,100 migrants were currently in Serbia, the prime minister said on Tuesday, and the U.N. refugee agency (UNHCR) reported at least 2,500 migrants stranded in no man's land between Croatia and Serbia.
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| Pistorius' early release makes no difference to slain girlfriend's family - lawyer | | | South African Paralympic Oscar Pistorius' release into house arrest slightly less than a year into his five-year jail term for killing his girlfriend makes no difference to her family, a family lawyer said on Tuesday. "To them it doesn't matter whether he was released yesterday a few hours earlier or a few hours later," Tania Koen, a lawyer for slain model Reeva Steenkamp's family said on Talk Radio 702. |
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